Welcome

In this webpage you can find detailed and updated information
on the MEGARA instrument. Below is a list of the recent and upcoming
talks that we, members of the instrument team, will be giving in
difference centers across the GTC Consortium member countries.
Please, if you are interested in hearing more on the status and
capabilities of MEGARA you can contact us at
agil@ucm.es and
we will try to arrange a visit to your center asap.

In this link you
can also find a description of the plans for the exploitation of the MEGARA Guaranteed Time and targets
to be observed as part of it.

MEGARA
(Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para
Astronomía) is a facility instrument designed for the 10.4m
GTC telescope in La Palma (Spain). Once installed at GTC by the end
of 2016, will offer two different observing modes to the community,
the Large Compact Bundle (LCB) mode, an Integral Field Unit (IFU)
covering 12.5” x 11.3” on the sky with a spaxel size of 0.62” and a
Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) mode that will allow observing 100
objects in a region of 3.5’ x 3.5’ around the LCB IFU. Eight of
these bundles will be devoted to the determination of the sky during
the observation with the LCB. Each of the MEGARA MOS
positioners can place a mini-bundle of 7 fibers (0.62”/fiber) with an
absolute positioning requirement of 25 micron, covering an approximately
circular area of 1.6" in diameter on the sky. Both the LCB IFU and MOS
capabilities of MEGARA will provide intermediate-to-high spectral
resolutions (R~6000, 11000 and 18700).

In this webpage you can find information on the detailed design and
construction status of the MEGARA instrument for the 10.4m GTC
telescope along with its scientific drivers as put together by our
Science Team.
MEGARA will arrive to GTC before the end of 2016 with a planned
first light on April 2017.

The PI (Armando Gil de Paz) and the Science Group at UCM belong to
GUAIX, the UCM
group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical
Instrumentation, part of the "Departamento de Astrofísica y
CC. de la Atmósfera".